Archives - 16 February 2013, Saturday

Kim Dotcom knows how to stir up a storm on Twitter. On Saturday, he announced Bitcoin support for his cloud storage service and also sent out a slew of tweets suggesting Mega is going to become much more than just the successor to Megaupload. Doctom reemphasized his company’s commitme...

The popular social-news site Reddit said it will now accept bitcoins, following blogging platform WordPress in embracing the four-year-old virtual currency. Reddit, which lets users submit and vote on popular Web content, already uses PayPal and Google Wallet for its "Gold" service, w...

Kim Dotcom has just announced through Twitter that Mega, his successor to Megaupload, will now be accepting Bitcoin as payment for its cloud storage services. You can purchase your Mega service with Bitcoin through Mega’s newest reseller, Bitvoucher. Bitcoin is a P2P digital currency ...

Roughly one year ago the FBI forcibly closed Megaupload and proceeded with criminal cases against its owners. They accused Megaupload owner Kim Dotcom of a number of criminal indictments and begun a legal case. Mega (previously Megaupload) is now accepting Bitcoin through two reseller...

Kim Dotcom knows how to stir up a storm on Twitter. On Saturday, he announced Bitcoin support for his cloud storage service and also sent out a slew of tweets suggesting Mega is going to become much more than just the successor to Megaupload. Doctom reemphasized his company’s commitme...

Mega update: Dotcom's service now accepts Bitcoin, will expand into email, chat, voice, video, and mobile — Kim Dotcom knows how to stir up a storm on Twitter. On Saturday, he announced Bitcoin support for his cloud storage service and also sent out a slew of tweets suggesting Mega …

Kim Dotcom knows how to stir up a storm on Twitter. On Saturday, he announced Bitcoin support for his cloud storage service and also sent out a slew of tweets suggesting Mega is going to become much more than just the successor to Megaupload. Doctom reemphasized his company’s commitme...

What I've done here is added six months onto this chart (click for full-size), showing where I believe the exchange rate and mining difficulty will take us over the next half-year. Predicting mining difficulty at this scale was rather easy; it's going to go up, and quickly. A difficul...

Bitcoin adoption is increasing and reaching new businesses every day. The more people who get into this virtual currency, the better! For those who haven't joined the revolution yet, check out http://thebitcoinmaster.blogspot.com and get started!

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Quote from: gweedo on February 16, 2013, 06:32:09 PM But weren't there other resellers that did the same thing a while ago... One other re-seller was accepting BTC. But this is news because Kim Dotcom just tweeted it to a quarter million followers, and will certainly talk about it mor...

It's a good suggestion. The free/open source movement is highly aligned to Bitcoin's roots and principles. But we should work on making the Bitcoin offering self-evidently valuable, rather than having to apply pressure. The word pressure makes it slightly adversarial. Vendors should b...